A new addition
Pat, Lotus and I will be expecting a new little addition, late August.
Before you ask, no it wasn’t an accident.
I have had this in my mind for a little while now, since loosing my Dad and wanting to replace him with a puppy or baby straight away. Luckily I have a very strong, stable and supportive husband who convinced me to wait it out (on both dog and child) and do my grieving first. But it didn’t go away. I spent hours online googling puppies and getting close to adoption when we visited the pound, more than once. I grieved, cried, wished and hoped that things could have been different, then came to accept they wouldn’t, and began the long process of getting on with my life. But the need for another little life form never went away. Now this is coming from a woman who was 100% sure that I was done at one child. So content and fulfilled in my life, shocked and dismayed at people who had more that two kids?! Not able to deal with a lot of ‘stuff’ in my house and wondering how other women do the washing for more than a husband and one child. I was completely happy with being able to share my passion through my work, have time to pour unlimited love into my daughter and spend quality time with my bloody beautiful man. How things can change.
So after much deliberation we decided to throw caution to the wind, and it came back in the form of a small human being growing inside of me. How amazing. While I am classified as a ‘geriatric pregnancy’ things are going beautifully. I am a very lucky, healthy, strong pregnant woman and am getting used to the ever changing shape of my body, as challenging as this can be 10 years after my first pregnancy, but who’s comparing? I am hoping to continue teaching long into my third trimester (which I enter in 2 weeks time!) and am extremely lucky to be surrounded by an incredible group of women, who I work with daily, to share in this process.
I have been drawn towards teaching more pre and post natal Yoga, as well as Womens Yoga, naturally wanting to share all I am learning through my own practices of connecting with my womanhood. I am listening to LOTS of podcasts on natural birthing, reading all the necessary books (Ina May is incredible), have my own midwife (more on that later) and will be doing another round of hypnobirthing with the lovely Meaghan Amor from ‘A Place called birth’. I look forward to recording all of my insights here, to share with any pregnant women who are in need of love, support and a little hand holding.
Very exited, a little nervous, but ready for the ride.
Alicia xxx
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I’m so happy for you Alicia! And very surprised!!! 🤣🤣🤣 What a special family your little one will be born into, very lucky. X
Yes most definitely a surprise, without being an accident! Don’t think we could have ever gotten to 100% sure that we were ready and able to have another little person in our lives, but it was obviously meant to be!
Much love to you and your lucky ones xxx
Ohhhh I’m soooo happy for you! What an incredibly lucky little bubba he or she is to have such a woman to call mummy .. so much love to and your family, hope to see u soon xxx
Nat
Thank you thank you! That is so lovely to hear, we hope we can give this little one as much love as we have Lotus, it’s always a bit of a worry the second time around, will my heart grow to accomodate this new life? I trust it will! Sending you and your crew love, and hope to see you soon, if not on the mat then at the marketta?!
I love this once again so thrilled for you guys and you are going to absolutely smash being a mumma of 2! Ps birth the second time around is like a million times easier and better and shorter lol I loved loved loved my birth with Raph it was so amazing and empowering ❤️
I am so excited to give birth! All I remember from Lotus’ birth was how empowering it was, and that I get to meet this little one at the end of it all! Thank you for your support and words, I wish you could be my midwife….maybe I’ll just ‘accidentally’ be at home and give you a call when I’m ready to push??!